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A study by John Cawley, associate professor of policy analysis and
management, found that cash rewards did not motivate obese people to
lose much weight. Cawley and graduate student Joshua Price evaluated
data on 2,407 obese employees who participated in worksite
health-promotion programs that rewarded weight loss with cash payments.
The majority of the obese volunteers in the study dropped out within a
year. And the average weight loss of those who stayed in the program was
only three to five pounds higher compared to people who received no cash
payments. The findings are published as a working paper issued by the
National Bureau of Economic Research.